Journal of Rural Studies

Article	Citations
Lethal violence across areas of the rural-urban continuum: Evidence from Pernambuco, Brazil	172
Enabling the delivery of rural affordable housing in England	162
(In)visible newcomers: Foreign workers and internal urban-rural migrants in Japan's countryside	126
The application of a sentiment analysis approach to explore public understandings of animal agriculture	120
Pesticide resistance and community collapse: The vicious cycle of rural disintegration and agricultural expansion	113
Spatiotemporal patterns, regional differences, and formation mechanisms of demonstration villages and towns in China	99
Punitive attitudes in Australia: Investigating the rural-urban divide	97
Striking roots: Place attachment of international migrants, internal migrants and local natives in three Norwegian rural municipalities	96
Hidden tunnels, drowned dragons, and other subterranean secrets: Environmental politics of small-scale mining in Colombia	96
Community perceptions of carbon farming: A case study of the semi-arid Mulga Lands in Queensland, Australia	92
The changing rural idyll and the ideal migrant: The case of Scotland during COVID-19	84
Identifying and characterising social sustainability in the Dutch agricultural sector	84
The impact of Brexit on SME lending in the UK	83
Conditions for Co-creation: Lessons from a planning tool for rural facility decline	83
Economic and environmental determinants of farm succession. The empirical evidence from Wielkopolska region (Poland)	81
“Making sense of rural identities in future horizons of Dutch and German students living in rural areas”	80
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience	79
Exploring the farmland-livelihood nexus among vulnerable rural households: A case study from a main grain production region of Northeast China	77
Conditions for doing business in rural areas: Survey evidence from in-movers and stayers	77
“You never farm alone”: Farmer land-use decisions influenced by social relations	76
Farmer competencies for successful farming in Sub-Sahara Africa	73
Factors influencing farmer participation in bottom-up collaborative agri-environment-climate measures	58
Concerns and barriers surrounding the farm succession process – perception versus reality for beef farmers in Ireland	58
Volunteer tourism in rural France: Examining power dynamics, labour practices, and community interactions	57
Smallholders’ livelihoods in the presence of commercial farms in central Kenya	57

The evolution, interaction, and management of rural resilience in Jiangsu province, China: Insights from a social-ecological system	57
Improving the design of local short food supply chains: Farmers’ views in Wallonia, Belgium	56
Spatial-temporal patterns and driving mechanism of rural vulnerability at county level：A case study of 117 counties in Heilongjiang Province, China	56
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden	55
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities	53
The potential effects of climate change on subsistence farmers’ wellbeing in tropical (sub)montane homegardens. A case study on Mount Kilimanjaro	53
Alternative places for alternative people? A changing ecovillage discourse from Othered lifestyle to another rurality	52
The gendered motives and experiences of Canadian women farmers in short food supply chains: Work satisfaction, values of care, and the potential for empowerment	52
Using mass media campaigns to change pesticide use behaviour among smallholder farmers in East Africa	52
Rural creativity for community revitalization in Bishan Village, China: The nexus of creative practices, cultural revival, and social resilience	52
Downhill from here? Why shrinking regions are not necessarily ‘left-behind’	51
Addressing the challenges of agro-cattle farming in Bangladesh: A study on educated youth entrepreneurs	48
The impact of mental health on the technical efficiency of Chinese arable farmers	48
The effect of management accounting practices and ICT on the efficiency of organic farms	48
Editorial Board	48
Farm stress and the production of rural sacrifice zones	47
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982	47
Perceived justice of the Dutch food system transition	47
Governing the reterritorialization of agricultural activities: An assessment of food planning policies in France	46
Scholar-institutional entrepreneurs in rural tourism path innovation: the case of Azheke plan in China	46
Between on-site and the clouds: Socio-cyber-physical assemblages in on-farm diversification	45
Blame it on the rain: Rainfall shock and consumption smoothing in rural China	45
Rural housewives clubs- unlocking the potential of Women's agency in local development in Poland	45
Corrigendum to “Climate-smart agriculture & the impact of financial incentives on adoption: an econometric analysis” [J. Rural Stud., 123, March 2026, 104035]	45
(Dis)connections between youth migration and food security in a rural community of the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico	44
Empowering European farmers: Insights from decolonial theory and indigenous people in Latin America	43
Symbolic economy of bike rentals in rural and suburban Hong Kong: Capital conversion in competitiveness of traditional and innovative firms	43
Getting money in the country: Is there a liability of rurality facing SMEs?	43
Regional drivers or local constraints? Spatial patterns and development pathways of specialized villages in Henan, China	42
Integrated food policies in south-western France: Insights from local policy-making outside major urban areas	42
Coal seam gas extraction and related landscape changes in the agricultural production area of Western Downs (Queensland, Australia)	42
Medical assistance in dying in rural communities: A review of Canadian policies and guidelines	41
Unmaking capitalism through community empowerment: Findings from Italian agricultural experiences	41
Farmer technology adoption in Cambodia: The impact of climate change, risk aversion, and crop type	40
Evaluating rural municipal climate change plans in ontario, Canada	40
Farmers' perceived values in intercropping: An application of the means end chain framework in Swedish agriculture	40
Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside	40
Understanding the socio-cultural resilience of rural areas through the intergenerational relationship in transitional China: Case studies from Guangdong	40
Post-pandemic developments in lifestyle migration in Japan: From back-to-the-land to urbanrural?	40
Migrants in the economy of European rural and mountain areas. A cross-national investigation of their economic integration	39
LEADER and rural development policy - What's the problem represented to be?	39
‘What we'd like is a CSA in every town.’ Scaling community supported agriculture across the UK	39
Rethinking the near collapse of certification programmes in commodity value chains: A temporal myopia perspective	39
Value chains for sustainable mountain development: a qualitative understanding of 23 European cases	39
Rurality and latent precarity: Growing older in a small rural New Zealand town	38
Learning, adaptation and resilience: The rise and fall of local food networks in Denmark	38
Economic and environmental upgrading after a policy reform: The case of timber value chain in Myanmar	37
Shaping society, building community. The role of mutual aid in a pastoral Basque valley (Xiberoa, France)	37
Maybe language Isn't that important: The impact of atmospherics on repurchase rate in non-commentary agricultural product E-commerce live streaming	36
Not a Decline but a Constraint: An analysis of youth agricultural engagement in Malawi using nationally representative data	36

Farmers’ limited perceptions of the role of ecological processes in crop production, a potential obstacle to agroecological transition	36
The long-term impact of land certification on factor reallocation and household welfare in rural China	35
Unpacking local food politics in scaling sustainable public food procurement	35
Post-socialist generation change in Hungarian farming	35
Identifying new social enterprise models in the Italian municipalities	34
What typifies participatory art projects in the countryside? A quantitative study of the rural-urban continuum of community-based art initiatives	34
Editorial Board	34
Editorial Board	33
Empowering farmers to conserve grassland's genetic diversity in situ	33
Editorial Board	33
Historical transitions of seed breeding in China: From socialist cooperation to joint research	33
It doesn't bother me: An intersectional analysis of discrimination among white women farmers in the US Corn Belt	32
Ensuring milk quality: Contextualizing the knowledge of Kenyan small-scale milk traders who connect farmers with low-income consumers	32
Beyond human health – Exploring farmers' perspectives on pesticides in Swiss agriculture	32
Communities of practice and rural women's empowerment: Insights from a case study of grassroots cooperative in Turkey	32
Wellbeing dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: a spatial perspective across territorial typologies	32
Elaborating decent work for agriculture: Job experiences and workforce retention in the Australian orchard industry	31
The rural development trilemma	31
Diversity evolution pattern of rural settlements and its driving mechanism transition: A case study in Southwest China's karst mountains	31
Tourism and coexistence between branded and natural wines: the case of Calonge i Sant Antoni	31
Media framing of migrant labour in UK fruit and vegetable production: An analysis of reporting in UK farming and mainstream print press	30
Women empowering rural Spain: A study of entrepreneurial career satisfaction	30
Social innovation in rural governance: A comparative case study across the marginalised rural EU	30
How does gender shape the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices? Evidence from Belgium	30
Farmers’ adaptive behaviors towards wildlife incidents regarding national park management: The role of informal institutions	30
Policy intervention mechanism on farmers’ intention to promote water-saving irrigation: Evidence from China	29
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China	29
Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining	29
Agricultural value chain transformations: A comparative analysis of milling segment upgrading in the rice value chains in Ghana and Ivory Coast	29
Scaling up cross-village land consolidation while maintaining local legitimacy: Evidence from Zijiao Town, China	28
Europe's orchard: The role of irrigation on the Spanish agricultural production	28
Social innovation and their legitimation processes within rural developments in east Germany	28
Gendered cognition, intra-household preference divergence, and behavioral choice: How gender differences shape GM maize adoption in smallholder families	28
The European Green Deal and the peasant cause: Class frustration, cultural backlash and right-wing nationalist populism in farmers’ protests in Poland	28
Extensionists as mediators of agricultural skill ecosystems: A study from North India	28
Advancing AKIS with assemblage thinking	28
Understanding terraced cropland marginalization in China's mountainous areas: Process, characteristics, and underlying mechanisms	28
Labour regimes and farm diversity in greenhouse farming systems: evidence from Mediterranean Europe	27
Non-metropolitan settlement and integration outcomes of humanitarian migrants in Australia: Combining spatial, multidimensional and longitudinal perspectives	27
Balancing food security and livelihood support: Re-evaluating cultivated land function trajectories under state and individual rationalities in China	27
Newcomers and rural crisis: Beyond the demographic challenge. A case study in Andalusia (Spain)	27
Locally grown consumers: The socio-material agencing of alternative food consumers	27
Designing precision livestock farming system innovations: A farmer perspective	27
Understanding resilience capacities in rural AGRO-Industries: Evidence from Spanish wineries	26
Shifting forest landownership interests over the life-course of female forest landowners in rural Georgia, United States	26
A comparison of the mental health impacts and resilience of healthcare workers in rural Manitoba during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
End of life, a good death? Navigating end-of-life decisions for working mules (Equus asinus × Equus caballus) in Nepal: Ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives	26
Demand for veterinary services in Cambodia: Determining factors and differing roles of service providers	26
Marginalisation through the eyes of the othered: Young adults choosing to live in rural Northern Sweden	26
The potential of local online shopping platforms for villages and small and medium-sized towns	26
Challenges facing agricultural cooperatives in Mediterranean countries	25
Editorial Board	25
Does the democratization level of village governance affect perceptions of security and integrity of land rights? -An analysis from the perspective of social network abundance	25
A cross-domain coupling framework for digital twins in rural regional systems: Insights from China	25
Beef as a socio-cultural identity: Rural and urban consumers' attitudes from Rio Grande do sul, Brazil, facing cultured beef	25
Revealing nested archetypes of cropland abandonment based on social-ecological system theory	24
Technical knowledge acquisition modes and environmental sustainability in Spanish organic farms	24
Home is where the welfare is: Healthcare portability and settlement intentions of rural migrants in China	24
Post-rural mental health: Developing Nye et al.’s research agenda for mental health in agricultural areas	24
Under-capacitated and over-powered? Rural austerity and asymmetrical negotiating relationships in US wind energy development	24
Maintaining emergency services in rural areas. Recruitment, retention and resignation of non-career firefighters in Sweden	24
The green transformation and gender equality in agricultural entrepreneurship: Insights from the European Union	23
Governing modesty: Platformed urban gaze and rural Chinese housewives on Douyin	23
Out of balance? Understanding resident-municipality relations in rural peripheries through ascriptions of responsibility	23
Enacting rural community resilience: An agency theoretical perspective on an emerging local food community	23
Stability and long-term strategies for poverty alleviation in China from the perspective of multi-dimensional relative poverty: Nationwide county-level analysis	23
What affects farmers' intention to learn about sustainability in online settings? An application of the extended theory of planned behaviour in Slovenia	23
The “White middle-class farming woman”: Instagram and settler colonialism in contemporary rural Australia	23
Place-based rural development: A role for complex adaptive region assemblages?	23
Localized practices of rural tourism makers from a resilience perspective: A comparative study in China	23
The elements of intuition in decision-making: A multidimensional framework based on Finnish regenerative farmers’ experiences	23
Do organic farming initiatives in Sub-Saharan Africa improve the sustainability of smallholder farmers? Evidence from five case studies in Ghana and Kenya	23
Experiences of dementia in farming communities: A scoping review	23
Rural-urban interfaces and changing forms of relational and planetary rurality	23
Community Co-creation through knowledge (Co)Production: The engagement of universities in promoting rural revitalization in China	23
Spatially explicit restructuring of rural settlements: A dual-scale coupling approach	22
Challenges and needs in Swedish dairy production – does herd size matter?	22
Editorial Board	22
Identifying the specific features, determinants, and suitability of green homestay inn distribution in rural China	22
Agricultural tenancies in Scotland: how much does the legislative framework affect the power balance between landowners and tenants?	22

Reciprocal reconstruction of regulatory and capital power: A dynamic interaction between local governments and land buyers in rural land value capture	22
How can rural e-commerce promote green production on family farms in China? Evidence from Hunan Province	22
How do smallholders enter local market? Embedded procurement in rural China	22
Older people and food insecurity in rural places: Invisibility, complexity and sociality	22
What influences the development of wine-producing regions? New economic opportunities in the eastern foothills of the Helan Mountains in China	22
Rebalancing healthcare utilization: Rural-urban health insurance integration and health-seeking behavior of rural residents in China	22
“You sleep with your eyes open”: Understanding rural crime and its implications for community well-being	22
Challenges and opportunities for the rural Cop in Trinidad and Tobago	22
Digital rurality: A three-fold model and research agenda	22
Delineation and development strategies for contiguous rural development units in peri-urban areas with ecological protection context: A case study in Xi'an section at the northern foothills of Qinling	22
Biodiversity heritage and transformation of beekeeping: From tradition to sustainability	22
Navigating industrial decline: A case study of place attachment and social capital in economic transition –Valemount, British Columbia	22
“We left the crop there lying in the field”: Agricultural worker experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic in a rural US-Mexico border region	22
Investigating robot acceptance in UK agriculture	22
“The ground beneath our feet is still holding strong”: Physical and symbolic capital in the rural youth movements crisis in Israel	21
The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas	21
Deliberative assembling: Tinkering and farmer agency in precision agriculture implementation	21
Agricultural dynamism and the influence of territorial characteristics in attracting young farmers	21
Residential migration among veterans with experience of housing instability	21
Increase of fear of crime in rural Brazil and police legitimacy	21
(Re)enclosure, structural violence and commoning in marine fisheries in the Gulf of Mottama, Myanmar	21
Justifications for farm practices and animal welfare among Norwegian livestock farmers	21
Community-supported agriculture and allotment gardens as collective forms of food production – Investigating the effect of social capital on perceived benefits	21
The role of government interventions in household climate adaptation on the Tibetan Plateau	21
Social network analysis to identify actors for participatory food system transformation – Learning from two case studies in Switzerland	21
“A lender should not know where you live”: Financial precarity, debt, and everyday life in rural Malawi and Tanzania	20
Black Ecologies, subaquatic life, and the Jim Crow enclosure of the tidewater	20
Learning from the past and embracing future opportunities: Perceptions of new Environmental Land Management Schemes and private nature markets	20
Inter- and intra-annual changes in food consumption among rural households in East China	20
Effect of China's new rural pension scheme on the consumption of relatively poor households	20
Understanding the barriers and enablers to agroforestry adoption in Ireland through an innovation systems approach	20
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement: Blurring the rural-urban boundary in Chengdu, China	20
The humans behind the herd: are alternative livestock farms agroecological from a socioeconomic perspective?	20
A relational approach to pesticide use: Farmers, herbicides, nutsedge, and the weedy path to pesticide use reduction objectives	20
Factors influencing the decision of young adults to remain in their rural environment: Social origin, education and gender	20
The global cotton trade network reveals a shift in the cotton import center to the global south from 1986 to 2020	20
Building the plane in the air: Articulating neo-endogenous rural development from the ground up	20
Impact of farmer differentiation on farmland abandonment: Evidence from Fujian's hilly mountains, China	20
Intermediate levels of socio-ecological disturbance drive higher biodiversity in naturally regenerating forests: A case study from Nepal	19
Editorial Board	19
Prefiguring the counter-hegemony of open cooperativism: The case of Open Food Network	19
Angling for change? A study of a Swedish public-private partnership for sustainable rural fisheries tourism	19
Does rural e-commerce affect rural households’ rural-to-urban migration? Evidence from China	19
Migration, class and intra-distinctions of whiteness in the making of inland rural Victoria	19
Are landholders willing to collaborate under ELMs? Promoting collaborative conservation on a landscape scale in the UK	19
Multi-scale cultivated land quality evaluation and scale conversion in Northeast China	19
Effects of digital economy-driven Chinese-style agricultural modernisation--based on analysis of mediating effects and spatial spillovers	19
Place-based rural development: building capacities, multi-actor collaborations and making sense of the local ‘place’	19
New pathways for women’s empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania	18
Gender (in)equity and the adoption of farm machinery: Opportunities and trade-offs in Bangladesh livestock systems	18
Understanding stress factors in farming: A nationwide survey on occupational strain and mental health among Austrian farmers	18
Promotional campaigns in the agri-food sector aimed at reducing meat consumption: A promising leverage for action	18
Putting access to internet-enabled work in its place: Insights from rural Atlantic Canada	18
Scaling up mechanisms in citizen farming initiatives: Lessons learned from a citizen-led and collective agroecological farm	18
Investments are more than money: Emerging investment rationales and farmers in the Danish agri-food system	18
Deciphering how promoting land consolidation for village revitalization in rural China: A comparison study	18
Assessing the effect of soil testing on chemical fertilizer use intensity: An empirical analysis of phosphorus fertilizer demand by Irish dairy farmers	18
Beyond the idyll: The recreation of rurality within rural consumption space through a new materialism approach in traditional villages in Yi County, China	18
Does planning production expansion have its intended effect in reality? Evidence from the dairy sector in Poland	18
Creative assets, people, and places: Rural art action practices of US nonprofit organizations	18
Connectivity or proximity planning in rural areas? Accessibility and equity insights from Crete, Greece	18
Navigating spatial justice: Exploring municipal planners’ logics in differentiated village planning	18
Contesting rural Australia in the time of accelerating climate change	18
Corrigendum to “Servant leadership and members' well-being in China's village committees: A multilevel analysis of the serial mediating roles of serving culture and organization-based self-esteem” [J.	18
“With the horizon ahead”: Emancipatory politics and radical imagination in the Catalan Pyrenees	18
Imagining an agrarian future in rural Rwanda: Evidence from Congolese refugees at Mahama camp	18
Farmers and their data: Evaluating the swiss conception of data sharing through the lens of digital farming	18
How mega events redefine rurality? CunBA and the (re)production of rurality in China	17
Family farming and gender in a valley in northern Spain	17
A narrative study of why young people go ‘back-to-the-land’: Interpretation from the perspective of self-identity theory	17
>Intersectional knowledge as rural social innovation	17
Soil-based carbon farming: Opportunities for collaboration	17
Learning legitimacy in context: Ecological entrepreneurship among new farmers in rural China	17
Seaweed aquaculture through the lens of gender: Participation, roles, pay and empowerment in Bantayan, Philippines	17
What makes peripheral places matter? Applying the concept of political capital within a multiple capital framework	17
Promoting rural revitalization in ethnic minority areas through characteristic plant industries: A comprehensive development framework from Yunnan with cross-regional comparative insights	17
Spatial association of coastal towns and villages in Funing District, Qinhuangdao: A study using social network analysis	17
Urban-rural mobilities: The case of China's rural tourism makers	17
Understanding the impact of identity and socio-economic factors on the adoption of soil conservation practices: Empirical evidence from Australia	17
Informal women entrepreneurs’ identity in the agri-food sector: An empirically grounded conceptual framework	17
Banditry as rural crime?	17
Rural revival? The rise in internal migration to rural areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Who moved and Where?	17
An urban-rural divide (or not?): Small firm location and the use of digital technologies	17
Policy and politics: How specialist farming media frame climate action	17
Farmland titling, farmland adjustment and rural collective action: Application of institutional analysis and development framework using evidence from China's irrigation commons	17
How digital literacy influence rural residents' demand for low-carbon housing renovations?	17
Wine grape grower perceptions and attitudes about soil health	17
From coca to coffee: An analysis of functional farm household types through archetypal trajectories of change in post-conflict areas of Colombia	17
Follow the rainbow home: Destabilizing urbanormativity and rural gentrification at LGBT pride in rural New York	17
Fisheries area-based partnerships in European multilevel governance: understanding embeddedness in organisational environments	17
Investigating the Slow Food - Place relation: An empirical study of dairy communities in Abruzzo	16
Rural innovation and the green transition: The role of further education colleges	16
Pathways of displacement: A pan-Canadian perspective on the nature and dynamics of rural and remote homelessness	16
Formative influences: How capital shapes rural students’ college-going intentions	16
Reviving rural “dead capital” through transferable development rights: A spatial justice analysis of online citizen–government interactions in China	16